AI Academy
AI Academy is Springer Nature’s internal training programme for staff AI proficiency across departments.
AI licensing, infrastructure and adoption
Case Genie
Case Genie, built by 67 Bricks for ICLR, lets users upload their own legal documents — skeleton arguments, for instance — and uses NLP to identify the legal concepts inside, then suggests relevant cases from the ICLR database,…
Cashmere
Cashmere is infrastructure between publishers and AI companies: publishers set the rules — what content can be used, how, at what price — and AI companies integrate once for legitimate access. Built on Omnipub, Cashmere’s data model for…
CC Signals
Creative Commons’ framework for how datasets can be ethically and transparently reused in AI — reciprocity and collective governance rather than pure licensing mechanics.
ClockHive (preprint server for agents)
ClockHive is a hackathon-built experiment: a preprint server whose target users are AI agents, not humans. The website has no buttons and no human login — everything happens through the API, so autonomous ‘open claw’ agents (which run…
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CUP digital sustainability and the environmental impact of AI
Andri Johnston, Digital Sustainability Lead at Cambridge University Press, discusses CUP’s digital sustainability work and the environmental impact of AI in publishing — one of the few publisher voices addressing AI’s footprint directly.Notes & quotes[From the podcast Helen…
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Databricks for NLP and Content Analysis at Elsevier Labs
Back in 2015, Elsevier Labs adopted Databricks to build NLP algorithms against their content archive. Shared notebooks replaced fragmented individual workflows, letting multiple teams process terabytes of text and petabytes of supplementary data.
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EasyJournal
Adam Hyde built two scholarly publishing platforms largely by “vibe coding” with Anthropic’s Claude: EasyJournal, a conventional system in the mould of OJS and Janeway, and Kotahi, a collaborative-first alternative with non-linear, communication-driven workflows.
Editorial AI assistant (BMJ + AWS)
The BMJ and the AWS Generative AI Innovation Center built an editorial assistant that helps journal editors screen submitted manuscripts — supporting decisions about which papers to send for peer review, which to reject, and why. Written up…
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eLife Pathways
eLife Pathways is eLife’s open-publishing-infrastructure initiative (backed by a £2.4m Wellcome investment), building on its publish-review-curate model toward modular publishing — separating a paper into parts so both humans and machines can link between them, with different composed…